Guy ManneringFields, Osgood, 1871 - Scotland |
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... circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of the birth ; and I hope to be able to put you in possession of some particu ...
... circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of the birth ; and I hope to be able to put you in possession of some particu ...
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... circumstance , he gave the scheme to a brother Astrologer , who was also baffled in the same manner . At one period he found the native , or subject , was certainly alive - at another , that he was unquestionably dead ; but a space of ...
... circumstance , he gave the scheme to a brother Astrologer , who was also baffled in the same manner . At one period he found the native , or subject , was certainly alive - at another , that he was unquestionably dead ; but a space of ...
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... circumstances of local situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in most cases a mixed race , between the ancient ...
... circumstances of local situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are called gipsies ; who are in most cases a mixed race , between the ancient ...
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... circumstances of brutal out- rage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other demerits , or merits , as the reader may choose to rank it , that of being a staunch Jacobite . She chanced to be at ...
... circumstances of brutal out- rage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other demerits , or merits , as the reader may choose to rank it , that of being a staunch Jacobite . She chanced to be at ...
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... circumstance in Scot- land ( in former days ) , where food and shelter were readily afforded to humble friends and dependents . The Laird's predecessors had been imprudent ; he himself was passive and unfortunate . Death swept away his ...
... circumstance in Scot- land ( in former days ) , where food and shelter were readily afforded to humble friends and dependents . The Laird's predecessors had been imprudent ; he himself was passive and unfortunate . Death swept away his ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin Guy Mannering hand head heard honour hope horse Jean Gordon Julia justice Kennedy Kippletringan Laird land Liddesdale light look Lord Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker